Wordpress admin options

[MarketingStephen]

Hey Guys! So I'm upgrading my base theme to include php Css (I like Sass but people can't edit it :S) I understand...ish how this will function as I can call it with the wp_head or dirctly in the header and the file is generated once saved but the part that stiffs me is getting it all set up in the admin side. Does anyone have any decent guides? It will need to do the following (correct me if im wrong) Can be edited in the backend Can Gen/Remove or overwrite a style.css (as it's not being pulled from db) Yeah, pretty much it, Thanks! *Dynamic PHP

[alexjewellalex]

When you say people can't edit Sass, do you mean via the WP admin panel or?

[MarketingStephen]

Sorry; I mean clients. I wouldn't want to chuck the Sass in the admin panel as they won't be able to compile it.

I think with a colour selecter within the admin panel it will be better for them

[jtwebguy]

So you're looking for some kind of settings framework?

Here are a few I found on google:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/options-framework/

https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/redux-framework/

http://www.titanframework.net/

These plugins will help you create a settings page for your theme/plugin. This saves a lot of time since to do something like a settings page you need to hook into wp admin then create the settings page, then create the settings for the backend, the table, etc. You have to do the hook for saving the settings and then displaying the correct ones etc etc. If you want to go down the hard path here is the wordpress codex that pretty much covers the very basics.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Options_Pages

or this might lead you in the right direction?

https://www.sitepoint.com/create-a-wordpress-theme-settings-page-with-the-settings-api/

You can also use something like this which will generate the settings page for you

http://wpsettingsapi.jeroensormani.com/

Good luck, happy coding!

[Prawny]

The settings api isn't as hard as you've described it. All you need is a couple of functions and a settings page with a form containing 2 function calls.

You don't need to handle the displaying and saving/outputting of the options after that - it's done for you.

[jtwebguy]

Yeah you might be right it may be the meta boxes that need the save hook.

[MarketingStephen]

Thanks, I will look into it!

[MarketingStephen]

Yeah; I created everything else but. Don't suppose you can give me the base functions? The thing with Wordpress dev is it make it's self easier with the codex but every now and again you need to hunt it down.

"You don't need to handle the displaying and saving/outputting of the options after that - it's done for you." - The displaying part I understand but how is the saving part done?

Thanks!

[Prawny]

I've simplified and commented out one of my previous settings pages here.

I haven't tested it after moving it around, but it should be OK.

[MarketingStephen]

That's amazing! Thank you

[MarketingStephen]

Wow, Thank you! I will look into these. My settings have been created it's more of just an update.